> On 4/19/20 11:12 AM, René Hopf via Emc-users wrote: > > For reasons I dont understand, many people prefer to use extremely legacy > > hardware to run linuxcnc. > > It's not a preference, it's an artifact of the situation: CNC machines > have lifetimes measured in decades, while PCs go from "brand new" to > "legacy" within less than one decade.
Think the one to the left on my desktop is about nine years and I still use it daily. Never had a computer this long before, maybe the "boom" times are over. > I have a Bridgeport that was made in 1983. Chris and I retrofitted it > from its original controller to LinuxCNC in 2010. We used a random PC > we had lying around that had decent RTAI performance - not a brand new > top-of-the line one, but not anything legacy or obsolete at the time. > It's got a single-core 32-bit Pentium 4 processor. As I do to but usually have a bit newer laying aound. Have a few with SSD disk, they start really fast. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
